Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113865
Reading partition table on some usb keys
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:01:36 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux; X11; i686) Description of problem: This might indicate some bug in the partition table reading code. I have a cheap usb key (sandisk mini cruzer 128M - SDCZ2-128) After buying the key, I noticed that it would cause a kernel crash in mandrake but work under redhat. Switched mandrake for redhat-9. Lately, I updated to kernel 2.4.20-28.[789] and got the same crashes as Mandrake. I googled for solutions and found a small message saying that making two partitions sometimes helps. I rebooted the old kernel, ran fdisk to create two partitions instead of just one. Now my key seems to work everywhere (mandrake, redhat including 2.4.20-28). Question: is there a bug somewhere in the partition table reading? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-28.[789] How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I tried this using - A fujitsu S4542 laptop running RH7.3 (P3m-600M) - A dell precision 340 (P4-1.8G-Intel850) running RH8.0 - A shuttle SS51G (P4-2G-SIS651+962) [usb2] 1. Get a USB key Sandisk Mini Cruzer 128M (SDCZ2-128) 2. Plug with kernel 2.4.20-28.[789] (kernel crash) 3. Plug with kernel 2.4.20-27.[789] (works!) 4. Repartition with fdisk. - one vfat partition with 249 cylinders - one ext2 partition with 1 cylinder (512Kb) 5. Plug with kernel 2.4.20-28.[789] (works now!) Additional info:
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